Your screen, forged into a story worth sharing.
RecordForge is a local-first screen recorder and lightweight timeline editor. Buttery cursor motion, zero-drift audio, hardware-encoded exports — and not a single byte of telemetry.
- idle memory footprint — native Rust + Tauri, no Chromium bloat
- <50 MB
- cursor telemetry sampling — per-frame vectors, not guesswork
- 120 Hz
- audio sync precision — native capture pipeline, zero drift
- µs
- accounts, telemetry, cloud lock-in — 100% local-first
- 0
Recorder-first engineering, editor-grade finish
Every feature exists to get a clean, in-sync, recoverable recording onto your disk fast — then polish it without ever leaving the app.
Subpixel cursor telemetry
Raw cursor vectors are captured at up to 120 Hz alongside the video — replayed with spring-damped motion, click ripples, and automatic focal framing. No post-hoc smoothing guesswork.
Cursor smoothing & click ripples
Demo clip coming soon
A feature-rich timeline editor
Multi-track editing: trim, split, move, delete, markers — with unlimited undo/redo. Every edit lands instantly; nothing re-renders until you export.
Trim, split & undo on the timeline
Demo clip coming soon
Smart & manual zoom
Auto-zoom follows clicks and focal points to keep the action readable — or drop manual zoom keyframes exactly where you want the punch-in.
Smart zoom following a click
Demo clip coming soon
Better camera layouts
Webcam picture-in-picture presets tuned per aspect ratio — 16:9, 1:1, and 4:5 placements with pixel-perfect crop preservation, no awkward overlaps.
Camera layout presets in action
Demo clip coming soon
Annotations & titles
Auto-numbered markers, draggable callouts, and title cards — plus burned-in captions and YouTube-valid chapters when you export.
Markers, titles & burned-in captions
Demo clip coming soon
Export any screen size
One recording, every destination. Reframe to 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, or 4:5 and export — no second take, no re-recording.
Sips memory, never gulps
Native Rust + Tauri, not a bundled browser. Your CPU and battery stay free for the thing you're actually recording.
Hardware-accelerated everything
Pinned FFmpeg 9.0 sidecars drive your GPU encoder directly — exports finish fast without pinning your CPU at 100%.
Zero-drift audio
Native WASAPI, CoreAudio, and PipeWire capture mic and system audio on isolated tracks, synchronized to microsecond precision — no desync on long recordings.
Crash-free by design
SQLite WAL persistence checkpoints every session in real time. Crash, power loss, accidental close — relaunch and your recording is right where you left it.
Optional cloud storage
Push exports to your own S3-compatible bucket or Google Drive. Tokens live in the OS credential vault — there's no recordForge cloud holding your media.
From shortcut to shareable MP4 in three steps
- 01
Record
Hit a global shortcut or the floating controls. Screen, mic, system audio, and webcam start together — already in sync.
- 02
Edit
Open the timeline, trim the dead air, split the good take. Every action is instant and undoable.
- 03
Export
Hardware-encoded MP4 lands on your disk. Optionally push to your own S3 or Google Drive — still no account with us.
Recordings stay yours. Literally.
Most recorders treat your footage as their product. RecordForge treats your disk as the source of truth — everything else is opt-in.
Works fully offline
Recording, editing, and exporting never touch a network. No account, no sign-in, no activation.
No telemetry or analytics
The app ships zero tracking. We can't see your recordings — they never leave your disk.
OS credential vault
Optional cloud-upload tokens live in Windows Credential Manager, Keychain, or Secret Service — never in our database or plaintext files.
Your storage, your rules
Exports go to your disk, your S3 bucket, or your Google Drive. There is no RecordForge cloud holding your media.
Ready to forge your next recording?
Free and open source, forever. No account, no watermark, no telemetry — just a recorder that respects your machine.
Download RecordForgeFree forever · Pro from $29 — one-time